Luke 2:18-24

¹⁸All those who heard about it were amazed at what the shepherds told them.

¹⁹But Mary was careful to remember all the things that had happened and often thought about them.

²⁰The shepherds went back to watching their flocks, glorifying and thanking God for all that they'd heard and seen, for it was just as they'd been told.

²¹After eight days, the time came for the baby to be circumcised, and he was named Jesus. This was the name given to him by the angel before he had even been conceived.

²²When the time of their purification according to the law of Moses was finished, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

²³as the law of the Lord states, “Every firstborn son must be dedicated to the Lord.”

²⁴There they made a sacrifice, as God's law also states, of “a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.”